Daily Diary

This week in bizarre law firm publicity stunts…

Posted 30/01/2007 by The Daily Diary

Some sponsor sports teams or events. Others go for cultural happenings – exhibitions, seasons at the opera, other elitist be-ins that just wouldn’t look the same without a law firm plastering its ultra-modern orange-and-lime livery all over the Grade One-listed décor.

Scots firm Gillespie MacAndrew was rather pleased with itself last week after signing a “five-figure sponsorship deal” with celebrity tea-set Silver of the Stars – “a collaboration between 10 personalities from the worlds of music, fashion, film and literature and…the world-class silversmiths currently working in Scotland”.

The firm now gets to see its name in lights next to a range of bespoke teapots for top tartan-clad talent like Billy Connolly and Lulu, while Ian Rankin is awarded a novelty Irn Bru flask “shaped like Forth Road Bridge girders”.

The collection goes on display in London on 31 January and will also visit New York, Beijing and Kyoto over the next year

Meanwhile, rumours that Slaughter and May is set to sponsor a new exhibition of Faberge napkin-holders remain, for now, entirely made up.

Scots saucepot and violin virtuoso Nicola Benedetti does her famous teapot impression

Note the slightly curious Caledonian lion reflecting on the former Bond's burnished bonce